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PostGIS 1.5.4 Release

The 1.5.4 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a bug fix release, addressing issues that have been filed since the 1.5.3 release.

Bug Fixes

  • #547, ST_Contains memory problems (Sandro Santilli)
  • #621, Problem finding intersections with geography (Paul Ramsey)
  • #627, PostGIS/PostgreSQL process die on invalid geometry (Paul Ramsey)
  • #810, Increase accuracy of area calculation (Paul Ramsey)
  • #852, improve spatial predicates robustness (Sandro Santilli, Nicklas Aven)
  • #877, ST_Estimated_Extent returns NULL on empty tables (Sandro Santilli)
  • #1028, ST_AsSVG kills whole postgres server when fails (Paul Ramsey)
  • #1056, Fix boxes of arcs and circle stroking code (Paul Ramsey)
  • #1135, improve testsuite predictability (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum)
  • #1146, images generator crashes (bronaugh)
  • #1170, North Pole intersection fails (Paul Ramsey)
  • #1179, ST_AsText crash with bad value (kjurka)
  • #1184, honour DESTDIR in documentation Makefile (Bryce L Nordgren)
  • #1227, server crash on invalid GML
  • #1252, SRID appearing in WKT (Paul Ramsey)
  • #1264, st_dwithin(g, g, 0) doesn't work (Paul Ramsey)
  • #1344, allow exporting tables with invalid geometries (Sandro Santilli)
  • #1389, wrong proj4text for SRID 31300 and 31370 (Paul Ramsey)
  • #1406, shp2pgsql crashes when loading into geography (Sandro Santilli)
  • #1595, fixed SRID redundancy in ST_Line_SubString (Sandro Santilli)
  • #1596, check SRID in UpdateGeometrySRID (Mike Toews, Sandro Santilli)
  • #1602, fix ST_Polygonize to retain Z (Sandro Santilli)
  • #1697, fix crash with EMPTY entries in GiST index (Paul Ramsey)
  • #1772, fix ST_Line_Locate_Point with collapsed input (Sandro Santilli)
  • #1799, Protect ST_Segmentize from max_length=0 (Sandro Santilli)
  • Alter parameter order in 900913 (Paul Ramsey)
  • Support builds with "gmake" (Greg Troxel)

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